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''Those few Americans who are free of the constraints imposed by dogmas on their ability to think and to process information have a huge responsibility for their small number. The assault on the rule of law began in the last years of the Clinton regime, but the real destruction of the US Constitution, the basis for the United States, was achieved by the neoconservative George W. Bush and Obama regimes. Wars without declarations by Congress, torture in violation of both US and international law, war crimes in violation of the Nuremberg standard, indefinite detention and assassination of US citizens without due process of law, universal spying on US citizens without warrants, federalization of state and local police now armed with military weapons and uniforms, detention centers, “your papers, please” (without the Gestapo “please”) not only at airports but also on highways, streets, bus terminals, train stations, and at sporting events.''

[Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy in the Ronald Reagan administration & an associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was a columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. His latest book, ''The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West'' is now available. http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/ ]

If not for the lies of George Bush, the Boston Marathon bombing would likely never have occurred. Why not direct you anger at the greater criminal? Tamarlan is dead, but Bush still deserves to be tried.

You want to blame Bush for Boston, are you serious? This wasn't just failure; it isn't just incompetence - it is the intentional sacrifice of life to the political whim and purpose of a pro-Muslim administration.

Yea, and Gore refused to stop the election certification process in 2000 despite 15k sigs of constituents and maybe 6 congress people against it. It only needed a senator to stop the certification, and Gore was, as well as house speaker, and opponent of gwb in the election; but still saw the election certified.

In the past few days, government officials have acknowledged for the first time thatan F.B.I. agent in Phoenix had urged the F.B.I. headquarters to investigate Middle Eastern men enrolled in American flight schools. That memorandum also cited Mr. bin Laden by name and suggested that his followers could use the schools to train for terror operations, officials who have seen the memorandum said.

Administration officials reached this evening said the warning given to Mr. Bush did not come from the F.B.I. or from the information developed by the Phoenix agent. Instead, it was provided as part of the C.I.A. briefing he is given each morning, suggesting that it was probably based on evidence gathered abroad.

The C.I.A. had been listening intently over the July 4 holiday last year, after what one investigator called ''a lot of static in the system suggesting something was coming.'' But then the evidence disappeared as quickly as it had arisen, and by August, officials have said, little was heard from Al Qaeda.

The warning of the hijacking was given to the president at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., where he was on vacation.

Taken together, the news of the C.I.A. warning and the information developed separately by the F.B.I. explains Mr. Bush's anger after Sept. 11 that intelligence gathered on American soil and abroad was not being centrally analyzed and that the agencies were not working well together.

Several times he has told audiences that he is working on solving that problem, and these days he is briefed jointly by the F.B.I and the C.I.A., ensuring that each hears information from the other agency.

It was not clear this evening why the White House waited eight months after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington to reveal what Mr. Bush had been told.

But Mr. Fleischer noted that in the daily flow of intelligence information the president receives, the warning of what appeared to be the threat of a conventional hijacking was not as serious as it appears in retrospect. ''We were a peacetime society, and the F.B.I. had a different mission,'' he said.
Mr. Fleischer said the information given to the president in Texas had prompted the administration to put law enforcement agencies on alert. But there was no public announcement.
Bush was wared about the possibility of a conventional
Nonetheless, a senior administration official said tonight that there was speculation within the government that heightened security -- if it truly existed in August and September -- might have prompted the hijackers to use box cutters and plastic knives to avoid detection.

"I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile."
-- Condoleeza Rice May 16 2002 Press Conference:

"The attack will be spectacular and designed to inflict mass casualties against U.S. facilities or interests. Attack preparations have been made. Attack will occur with little or no warning."
-- CIA Intelligence Report for President Bush, July 2001

Warnings about 9/11 were sent to the Bush / Cheney administration from

Hmmm, let me see now. Within minutes of the attack, we had photos of Mohammed Atta and his henchmen. Or don't you recall that? The FBI had already given the names of the Saudi nationals in their report about the flight schools, and their shenanigans on the gambling boats in New Orleans.

Or are you one of those vacant mouth-breathers that needs reminding of the obvious?

See above. And find where I mentioned Boston was on Bush. You can't, because it didn't happen. Now, digest some facts, for a change.

Stanford Journal of International Relations
32 • Fall 2009
Mikhail Evstafiev
A Chechen man picks up a loaf of bread in Grozny.
Given the U.S.'s recent record of militarily intervening in cases of international
human rights abuse, its failure to take a decisive stance regarding Russia's invasions of separatist Chechnya in the 1990s came as a surprise. Despite reports of major human rights abuse perpetrated by Russian soldiers against ethnic Chechens, the U.S. took a noncommittal stance, making only the occasional rhetorical appeal to Moscow. U.S. ambivalence toward the Russo-Chechen conflict arose from a strategic interest in supporting the new democratically-elected Russian government, courting an important ally in the War on Terror, and avoiding a "re-frosting" in relations between the U.S. and Russia.

The Russo-Chechen conflict unmasked the hypocrisy of U.S. foreign policy, to which the U.S. will eventually have to answer when a similar conflict occurs elsewhere. (end quote)

And if you're saying that Obama's to blame because he was aware of these two Chechens, then how's about we discuss Bush being told by several secret services all over the planet about the imminent islamist attack on the twin towers.

Too chickenshit to answer? You said the drone strikes are on Bush. You post a link. I destroy it. . You mention Chechnya inthe late 90's, why? CLINTON was in office in the late 90's. So how is Bush responsible for a bombing by some radicalized Chechen that occurred 5 years after Bush left office and Chechnya was radicalized on Clinton's watch.

If you don't explain you are a dog worm coward, a wimp hiding behind your own gutless lack of courage.

Who was President inthe 90's? For Pete's sake, it was Clinton! Bush didn't take office till 2001. So how is A radicalized Chechnya even remotely on Bush? Pease answer.

And I never said he wasn't responsible for drone strikes but nothing like Obama.

I am not a shill or anyone. You clearly love fellating any dumbass Democrat, evnat the risk of the truth. I haven't lied. You have. And you are getting screwed right ow ad you get on your knees and suck.

Yes for Iraq and Afghanistan. Maybe you can justify invading and occupying an entire country because of the action of 19 Saudi Arabians, or the lies told by a single source regarding chemical weapons. I sure can't.

And I also blame Obama for continuing the war in Afghanistan. Political persuasion doesn't affect my viewpoint. It's really a pleasure not to have to defend the indefensible.

But don't let the truth bother you. And please don't blame Obama as my stock investments continue to soar, as he creates another asset bubble by over borrowing, making old white men Richer and richer.

All his spending had done, all the QE as done is elevate stock asset prices, hasn't created jobs for middle class at all.

My 401k has tripled in the last few years, thru no great intellect by me, because you dopes elected Obama. Barack is making me rich, by creating a fake asset bubble in stock. Who gets payed for the fool? You and anyone else who doesn't own stock.

You guys, it's all Bush, Bush, Bush, even when the guy hadn't been in office for 5 years and JPMorgan is reaping record profits because Obama is feeding the stock market machine.

You are all being played the fools. OPEN YOUR EYES! Look around! Who is getting rich? Bankers! Hedge funders! Mutual funds! Follow the MONEY! The stock marketis soaring and who is benefitting? Follow the money!

Bush is long gone, 5 years gone, and yet the market is over 16000 and unemployment is still awful. Follow the money!

We need an administration that is FOR the people. We won't be finding that in a democrat or republican admin. Both parties have sold out to the highest bidder, and stymied the democratic process of We the People.

People with well-tuned bullshit-o-meters dismiss conspiracy theorists with a quick glance at their work. There's no quack bigger than a truther, an anti-vaxer, a chemtrails advocate, a NWO advocate, etc...

Run me around? My 401k went from $800000 to $2.4 million while you are fellating Obama and the liberals. I am now fairly rich, white, and haven't done one thing to earn it, while you get out another set of knee pads, and suck, blindly worshipping your god with your mouth and all he doing is making rich white people richer.

I laugh all the way to the bank, and so does JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, inly WAY bigger, for doing nothing really, and you can't stop swallowing.

It doesn't matter where Tamerlan was radicalized, it matters what radicalized him. Most likely it was Bush's invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, who many Muslims believe was a war on Islam.

Read thru it. Bush was never alerted to the risk. He WAS alerted to the risk of a conventional hijacking, but not use as bombs.

â€¢ 1990-1996: Mary Schiavo, former Inspector General for U.S. Dept. of Transportation (1990-1996) resigned after the FAA tried to classify her report detailing lax security at the nation's major airports. Agents were able to sneak fake bombs, hand grenades, guns and knives through metal detectors. Congress, according to Schiavo, was not interested in making it hard on the airline industry, so they swept it under the rug!

â€¢ 1993 â€“ A Pentagon expert postulates that an airplane could be used as a missile to bomb national landmarks. This idea is not published in the â€œTerror 2000" report.

â€¢ 1994 â€“ Phoenix FBI discovers videotapes two men trying to recruit an FBI informant to be a suicide bomber, one of which is linked to Sheikh Abdul-Rahman (the blind Shiekh incarcerated in New York for his role in the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993).

â€¢ 1994 â€“ Three planes are crashed or attempted to crash into buildings this year. A Fed Ex employee tries to crash a DC-10 into a company building in Memphis but is overpowered by the crew. A lone pilot crashes a small plane onto the White House grounds. An Air France flight is hijacked by terrorists linked to al Qaeda, with the goal to crash it into the Eiffel Tower, but French Special Forces storm plane before it takes off.

â€¢ Bob Graham asserts that since at least 1994, intelligence agencies received information indicating terrorists were contemplating using aircraft as weapons, and this information did not lead to any specific intelligence assessment of this form of threat or any government reaction to it.

â€¢ December 1994 â€“ Ramzi Yousef plants a small bomb on Philippine Airlines flight to Tokyo as part of a trial run of Operation Bojinka.

â€¢ January 1995 â€“ Philippines disrupts Operation Bojinka to explode 11 or 12 passenger planes over the Pacific Ocean and to crash others into prominent US buildings. Philippines warns US of targets for attack, including CIA headquarters, Pentagon, nuclear power plant, TransAmerica Tower (San Francisco), Sears Tower (Chicago), and World Trade Center. Plotter Abdul Hakim Murad is handed over to FBI in April 1995 and he identifies 10 other men in flight training who were involved.

I can't copy it all, too large, but virtually all the warnings occurred under President Clinton, in regards to airliners used as bombs. Plus it was more theory, game theory, not fact. <<<

Your previous links to Clinton and warnings of the potential of aircraft as weapons doesn't make Clinton responsible for the 911 attack. Decades of standing armies in Islamic countries is the most likely cause. So let's blame every President since Nixon? What would it accomplish?

As for Obama and Boston, your argument focused on economic matters and so made no sense.

Well what can you expect. There is no longer any loyalty towards this country anymore -

People who reside here don't give a shit anymore and the people who come to this country no longer want to assimilate but instead want to change it.

As I stated in previous posts the X, Y and melinimum generation will be in charge in 30 or so years - think it's bad now just wait you will no longer recognize this country as being an American Country.

Well, then why is it that U.S.A. people (I'm not saying American 'cause I don't want to include Mexicans, Canadians,and the whole of South America) go and make life miserable for people in other countries by making wars, and dropping drones, and more.
Maybe if our Government stopped doing that and more people stopped supporting government in doing those things, then people from other countries would not come over and blow things up here in the States.

I am a U.S. citizen, born and raised here, love this country, but I've been around this world and seen it, and am pretty mad at our government being the bully on the planet. I understand why so many people are pissed at us. Our government needs to stop.

And if you do not think what happens overseas does not have a direct impact on what is happening here at home, think again.

Yes I agree with you about a lot of US Assholes.
I don't know if that is a symptom or a cause.

Have you participated int the political process in the USA lately? Its totally rigged. One has a choice between an R ass or a D ass. Either way one gets an ass who is paid off by the same mob. Even at the local government level its totally corrupt. In our town we tried to save a city park from condo construction by petition a few years back after the city council wouldn't listen. We got over 180% of the signatures needed in half the time allotted, the city blew us off saying they do not need to listen to the public. I can understand why so many folks are apathetic to voting. I still vote (for the principle to maintaining the right to do so), but no long believe anything can get changed by merely voting.

consumption in it of it self may not be all that bad it is the sourcing that is bad. if things were properly sourced prices would reflect the true social costs and people would consume accordingly. that is the free market notion of it anyways.

It the waste issue, for mine, QM. There's literally millions of old 'puter monitors, printers, keyboards hard drives, cables, ad infinitum, full of toxic products, like mercury, and resources that are becoming scarce, like copper. And that's just one small sector of the waste our lifestyles produce. Think about the cars, and the way they are recycled isn't exactly environmentally sound.

We live on a finite planet. It might not be an issue for several generations, but now that we've pretty much given up on the concept of upgrading to another planet, or sending miners out there to bring back resources, we are stuck with this one for the foreseeable future.

The space race was responsible for huge leaps forward for more than just mankind. Lithium ion battery technology (all of our phones, tablets, ipads, netbooks use it) and the associated advances in micro-processors and tiny electronic gadgetry all came from the necessity of cramming as much as we could into a small usable space.

Imagine if all the cash spent on building the MOAB (mother of all bombs) was redirected to building something constructive?

The corpoRATions would pitch a fit - fewer sales of complete and expensive systems. That is why standardization has been so stubornley fought. More parts sales if not standard - well not more sales exactly - more expensive parts ( being non-standard ).